Holiday Traditions

The holidays are quickly approaching...don't we say that every YEAR!  How do they sneak up on us EVERY.SINGLE.YEAR?  This year, I'm going to point at a late Thanksgiving!!!  Anyway....as we dive full on into the holiday season...do you have family traditions that you look forward to every year?  We do!  We always put our Christmas decorations up (8 TREES!!!) the weekend AFTER Thanksgiving, then we decorate Christmas cookies with Meema, wrap pretty presents, chase that silly Elf around the house, gather many time with various family, we go to church on Christmas Eve and spend the rest of the evening snug at home reflecting on the true meaning of Christmas and then end the night with National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation!!  But one of our FAVORITE traditions is going to a holiday show with Meema. This year we chose the "Nutcracker" where one of our most favorite dancers was the Spanish Dancer.  Which brings me to our crafty inspiration today...it is true...I do NOT like flowers!  SO, what do you present to a dancer after her show...flowers.  Don't feel like you have to be traditional...we grabbed some flocked eucalyptus, snowberries, cotton puffs and a pretty flower...wrapped the stems in twine and wrapped the bunch in kraft paper, topped it off with a buffalo check bow and VOILA!!!